Issue - meetings

By Councillor Flannery - HHFW Meeting timings for 2024 – 2025

“Committee recognises that:

1.         The current timings of HHFW meetings can be detrimental to efficient business, timeous reports, and decision-making, directly affecting local communities.

2.         Notes that the committee will have had only two meetings since November 2023 and the Summer recess, July 2024, and Council have declared a Housing Emergency.

3.         Notes that, within the approved Council Diary, the next planned HHFW HRA budget meeting, 2025, will fall after the HRA budget is submitted, which will be for two consecutive years in a row.

Therefore requests:

A review of the HHFW future meeting dates to consider those that fall around recess times, which contributes to an undue length between one meeting and the next.

To mitigate against Spring meetings, falling after the submission of the HRA Budget in February.

Asks:

For the HHFW leads to meet and discuss the potential future alignment of HHFW and HRA Budget decision-making process.”